Ferdinand Didrichsen

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Ferdinand Didrichsen, in a photograph by Budtz Müller (1868).

Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen (3 July 1814 in Copenhagen – 19 March 1887 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish botanist and physicist.

He participated as botanist in the first

Eugen Warming
was passed over. After Didrichsen's retirement in 1885, Warming succeeded him in both positions.

As a

Pogonophyllum and Stenonia, as well as numerous plant species. Many of these findings were published in the Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.[2] Taxa with the specific epithet of didrichsenii are named in his honor.[3]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Botaniska Notiser translated biography
  2. ^ IPNI List of taxa described & co-described by Didrichsen.
  3. ^ JSTOR Global Plants Type of Mastigobryum didrichsenii Steph.
  4. ^ WorldCat Search publications)
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Didr.